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Mar 09, 2025

THIS WEEK IN OUTSIDER ART

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**BILL TRAYLOR** Untitled (Elaborate Building) (ca. 1939–1942) // Colored pencil, poster paint, and graphite on cardboard; 21 9/16 x 14 inches via *High Museum of Art*

**SAIMAIYU AKESUK** Spirit Guides (2021) Lithograph Ed. 45/50; 29 x 22 in. via *Feheley Fine Arts*

**MONTREL BEVERLY** The Last Supper (2024) // Pipe Cleaner Sculpture; 17 x 33.5 x 7.5 in via *SAGE Studio & Gallery*

featured in artnet’s “11 Knockout Artworks at the Outsider Art Fair”

**CONSUELO GAONZÁLEZ AMEZCUA** Filligree Drawing with Pen and Ink (c. 1970) // Pen and colored inks on illustration board with collaged thin tan paper; 19 3/4 x 16 inches (50.2 x 40.6 cm) via *Philadelphia Museum of Art*

**MAMIE DESCHILLIE** Dog on giraffe (c. 1990) // Clay, paint; 4 × 2 × 3 in. (10.16 × 5.08 × 7.62 cm) via *Museum of International Folk Art*

**MARY T. SMITH** Untitled (c. 1980) // Paint on metal; 102.8 x 122 cm (40 1/2 x 48 in) via *The Gallery of Everything*

**RAPHAEL LONNÉ** Untitled (1974) // Drawing; 10.5 x 14.7 cm via *Musee LaM*

**MAKER UNKNOWN** Negrito Mask (circa 1950; Mexico, Vera Cruz) // Polychrome wood; 8.5 x 6.25 x 6.5 inches (21.6 x 15.9 x 16.5 cm) via *Cavin-Morris Gallery*

**PHILIPPE DELOISON** The Choice towards the Light (1978) // Colored on paper; 49 x 65 cm. / 19.3 in. x 25.6 in. via *Collection of Mediumistic Art*

**ARTIST UNIDENTIFIED** Character Mask Unknown (ca. 3rd quarter 20th century; Mexico) // Polychrome wood; 7.5 x 5 x 6 in (19.1 x 15.2 x 12.7 cm) via *Cavin-Morris Gallery*

**GILLES PELLETIER** It's So Quiet All of a Sudden (c. 1995) // Acrylic paint on canvas; 28" x 34" x 2" via *Miller and Miller Auctions*

**SIMONE JOHNSON** Happy Birthday Bodega Cat (2024) // Colored Pencil on Paper; 22 x 30 in via *Pure Vision Arts*

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FEATURED ARTIST OF THE WEEK

**PAMELA SMITH** Family Dinner (2024) // Acrylic on Masonite (30x25) via *Northern Daughters*

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**ESTEBAN WHITESIDE** A Bag a Day:NRA (2024) // Acrylic and wood on wood — *Original work of art work by Esteban Whiteside, featured in the 2025 Outsider Art Fair in New York City. This work is ready to hang and measures 14 inches x 14 inches.*

Didn’t make it to New York to the Outsider Art Fair? No problem! You can still shop some of the works that didn’t find a new home on our website or on the Outsider Art Fair online viewing room.

SHOUT OUT

Shout out to Jennifer Gilbert of Jennifer Lauren Gallery for continuing to be one of the coolest and nicest humans at the Outsider Art Fair every year and including the star of The FolkArtwork Collective booth, this striking Amos Ferguson piece as one of her favorite works from the fair!

BONUS SHOUT OUT

So many great memories from last weekend, but my family may not cherish anything more than meeting Jackie Bradshaw, who took a 13 hour train ride to see her work at the fair and brought us the most incredible family portrait in the world.

Jackie painted this watercolor work of me and my wife, and our two little turkeys. So thrilled and honored to be in her artistic journey and friends with such extremely talented artists. To see people, especially moms and women respond to all the extremely gifted and powerful women who create art at the FolkArtwork booth was such a delight.

I can’t wait to come home everyday to see this gorgeous work hanging in our home.

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